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Show to COMMISSIONEB INDIAN AFFATRS. INSTITUTES. ; ' AS a further and entirely new means, so far as Indian scho&lsiri oonterned, of increasing the efficiency of service workers, arrange-ments were made to hold six institutes, or summer schools, of two weeks' duration each for employees of all departments of Indian schools at the following places during July and August: Chilocco, Okla., July 8 to 18. : . Hlandreau, S. Dak., July 20 to August 1. : Sherman Institute, Riverside. Cal., July 20 to August 1. , Tomah, Wis;, August 3 to 15. Chemawa, Oreg., August 3 to 16. ' Santa Fe, N. Mex., August 17 to 29. .' The courses of instruction outlmed for the institutes include and especially emphasize industrial subjects such as cooking, sewing, and lace makiig for the women, and gardening, dairying, horticulture, carpentering, and cement masonry for the men. A special feature is also to be made of teaching group games and group athletics as a means of encouraging physical training in the schools throughout the service, for the purpose of building up the young people physi-cally, and thus preventing disease, rather than having to cure it. Daily conferences on subjects of general interest to the entire service will be held, and lectures will be given daily on hygiene and sanita-tion, the liquor problem, and many other subjects of vital importance. : The plans for the institutes are thoroughly complete, and it is confidently believed that they will result in heartier cooperation, @;renter unity of effort, and a much more efficient service. The actual results of this innovation can not, of course, be reported at this time, but it is believed that the plans are of such importance to the future of Indian schools that they should be recorded as a feature of the year's activities. INDIAN SCHOOL P-8. : :The following letter concerning activities on Indian school farms was issued : TO all superintendmts: I am not satisfied that we are making the greatest use of our school farma They usually consist of large tracts of fertile land capable of raisingevery mop that the climate in which the school is located will permit. In some cases these farms are well irrfgated. ' 1.n every case the schools have been or can he furnished withall the equip menf necessary to till their famils to the fullest extent, and they can he fur-nished with stock with which to make a substantial showing in stock raising. 'he agricultural training of the boy pupils in our schools furnishes ample opportunity for intensive farming. If this training is to be of real valne and be effective in accoqplisbing its purpose,, the farming operations should be tlnilicially successful and at the same tlme conducted in accordance with modein inethods. . ' - .Z.a~.@ouvith~aet dth ere is a lnrge field for improvement in the handling of $em farms, and I want every field offlcer who his charge of such a farm to s60 |